SGI has investigated the issue and recommends the following steps for neutralizing the exposure. It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that these measures be implemented on ALL vulnerable SGI systems. This issue has been corrected in future releases of IRIX.

The original patch 5424 had two library mismatches causing 4Dwm to hangwith rld errors appearing in SYSLOG and problems with gr_osview. New patches5473 and 5474 have been released to fix these issues. (SGI BUG 908652)